Known London address

Grub Street

Parish

St Giles without Cripplegate

Ward

Cripplegate (Within & Without)

Date

1599

Censorial hearings

2 Nov 1599

Entry

P, of Grub Street, a 'pannorum infector' (dyer of rags or cloths), appeared. He had given a medicine to the wife of a clergyman of St Swithins - a confection of hamech in a decoction of senna. The senna had been prepared by an apothecary but without his prescription or advice. P had given the same medicine to the woman's husband. It was for a stricture of the bowels.

Action taken

Fined 40s. and imprisoned.

Verdict

guilty

Sentence

Fined 40s. and imprisoned

Number of crimes

1

9 Feb 1610

Entry

P was summoned but failed to appear.

Attitude of the accused

absent

Action taken

Failed to appear.

1 June 1610

Entry

P, a dyer, was summoned but failed to appear. See E p. 10b.

Attitude of the accused

absent

Action taken

Failed to appear.

9 Nov 1610

Entry

P failed to appear.

Attitude of the accused

absent

Action taken

Failed to appear.

Verdict

case not completed

6 Dec 1611

Entry

Richard Powell as he deserved was convicted, fined and imprisoned: namely he was convicted of extreme ignorance in medical practice, was fined £4 and imprisoned until he reformed, at any rate until he promised that he would not practise medicine here in future.

Action taken

Fined £4 and imprisoned till he should promise to abstain.

Verdict

guilty

Sentence

Fined £4 and imprisoned till he should promise to abstain

5 March 1613

Entry

Richard Powell, a dyer, was convicted but dismissed until the morrow of Palm Sunday. See E.

Action taken

Deferred.

Verdict

guilty

Sentence

None

7 May 1630

Entry

P was accused by Eliz. Sherburne of agreeing to cure a woman with tympanites (dropsy) for £3; the woman died. P said he had been fined 20 years before, and thought that once he had paid he could practise. He confessed to giving hamech and diaphoenicon as a purge.